FLUB

blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo

(noun) an embarrassing mistake

botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up

(verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin; “I botched the dinner and we had to eat out”; “the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

flub (plural flubs)

(informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

Verb

flub (third-person singular simple present flubs, present participle flubbing, simple past and past participle flubbed)

(transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

Anagrams

• BLUF

Source: Wiktionary



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